If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Some consider the puzzles that are created by their omissions as spicy challenges, without which their texts would be boring; others shun clarity lest their work is considered trivial.

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.